DeFranze v. State

ALMON, Judge.

Raymond E. DeFranze appeals from a judgment of conviction of robbery. His sentence was fixed at thirty years in the penitentiary. Originally this case was submitted in the Supreme Court on January 24, 1969, and subsequently transferred to this Court by virtue of Act No. 987, Regular Session, 1969.

The State’s evidence tended to show that during the afternoon'of February 22, 1968, Mrs. Judith Harris was in her home in Auburn with her three year old daughter when someone rang her doorbell. When she opened the door appellant asked her if she knew where the “Montgomerys” lived. After…